After hiking during Christmas holidays, I think I came down with the hiking disease once again. And I find quite ironic that I had to come to Ireland to find snow…

My short time home was marked by a remarkably warm weather, therefore you could only find a few small snow patches on the mountains. Which, needless to say, was quite disappointing…

See what I mean? Almost no snow! 1730m above sea level in December!!

Compare that with this…

This is Lough Cleevaun. 700m above sea level… THIS IS IRELAND!!

There was snow from around 550m and up! In some place over 40cm deep!

It was wonderful :3 …

All in all, a great hike. Most of it in the white…

First snow

Follow me

The group

Mullaghcleevaun

Treacherous passage: in some places snow becomes suddenly very deep… Watch where you step!

The line

Tricky path

What a wonderful panorama!

A moment of rest

Dangerous descent

The great white

Slippery path

That way!

Ireland at its best 🙂

River crossing